What I Know vs. What I Have Been Taught to Believe

As a teacher myself, it’s impossible to impart knowledge into students. We simply condense our experiences along with those of others and gather them for our students to harvest. Eleanor Roosevelt said “Learn from the mistakes of others, you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself"...my mantra. The key word here is “learn”. It is the student’s responsibility to learn. A keen observer, I am a perpetual student…of life. It is important to not only observe but to absorb. To observe is to be outside, to absorb is to go in. It’s the inner learning that leads us to become who we were meant to be. This I know, not from teachers in a classroom, but from life’s encyclopedia. Like the Internet, my questions are queried through my internal search engine. I always get an answer albeit not necessarily what, when or how I expect. We are so amazingly intricate that I believe our bodies innately have everything they need to heal themselves, if we just get out of the way. The same is true about the human soul. We already have the answer to life, we merely need to ask the questions and listen.